The Quiet Earth

1985

Action / Drama / Mystery / Sci-Fi

30
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 68% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 68% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 29203 29.2K

research government experiment based on novel or book bomb sun

Plot summary

After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.

Director

Geoff Murphy Photo
Geoff Murphy

Top cast

Alison Routledge Photo
Alison Routledge as Joanne
Anzac Wallace Photo
Anzac Wallace as Api's Mate
Pete Smith Photo
Pete Smith as Api
Bruno Lawrence Photo
Bruno Lawrence as Zac Hobson
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
837.08 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 7
1.68 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 31 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by andersox

Still walks through my my memory after all these years

I'm another person who saw this movie in a small art theater on Balboa Island, CA, in 1985. "Quiet Earth" was so haunting that, while channel surfing 15 years later, I saw just a flash of the image of Zac awakening and recognized the film instantly. I settled in to watch the film again--even knowing the ending--and its impact was still incredible.Maybe it's not for serious sci-fi fans but definitely for people who like movies with apocalyptic themes, such as "A Boy and His Dog".
Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 7 / 10

future in nihilism

Years before Peter Jackson's movies brought New Zealand cinema to the fore, Geoff Murphy's adaptation of Craig Harrison's novel was an interesting release from the tiny country. "The Quiet Earth" is not really a post-apocalyptic tale, per se. It seems to be posing the question to the viewer of what you might do if thrown into this absolutely bizarre situation. The late Bruno Lawrence plays a man who wakes up to find out that everyone else on the planet has simply vanished. But it turns out that a project on which he has been working holds the answer to this.Without a doubt, the end scene is up for interpretation, in the same way that the end of Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" is. But most importantly, "The Quiet Earth" is not an action movie. It's very much about the characters, and I really liked it. Also starring Alison Routledge and Pete Smith (an Orc in "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King", on which Geoff Murphy served as 2nd Unit Director).
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